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Contents:

• BEWARE: ALL OF THE THGS ARE GAY
• HOW TO LOOK GREAT AS A GAY MAN
• 8 PAIRS OF PRI SHO THAT SCREAM ‘GAY RIGHTS’
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
• GAY OR STRAIGHT? HARD TO TELL
• GAY SHO

BEWARE: ALL OF THE THGS ARE GAY

Skny jeans: Gay. Also gay:Drkg 'tisMan-purs of any kdLattMacchiatosFrappucosAnythg that isn't a cht hair-ducg regular cup of that end, removg said cht hair, or any other hair.

(Alopecia sufferers: Automatilly gay. Y, those are all fely on the homo list.

HOW TO LOOK GREAT AS A GAY MAN

Charl: There is a fe workg man fetish thg gog on wh jumpsus (although I thk that's more of a gay fantasy than a straight one).

8 PAIRS OF PRI SHO THAT SCREAM ‘GAY RIGHTS’

Partly bee of this, gay men often put more effort to their appearanc pared to their straight unterparts.

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Slappg a simple rabow on a shoe and llg gay isn’t enough. I myself am guilty of once bullyg my gay mentor for wearg a pair of fx fur-led crocs public. Crocs donat to GLAAD, so ’s basilly homophobic to hate Crocs now.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO

Maybe you've seen the recent vio that purports to show "what actually happens when gay guys see other gay guys and straight people aren't around. " While I n't nfirm or ny the accuracy of the clip's subject matter (still wag on clearance om the Gay Agenda), I n say that s edy is rooted a rich history of signalg, flaggg, and other forms of non-verbal munitn between gay Pulls a CharlottvilleThe vio fds actors/edians Brian Jordan Alvarez, Stephen Guaro, and Mch Silpa nng to one another their apartment buildg's regnizg one another's gayns, and realizg they're a space utterly void of heterosexualy, the three men lnch to some light nway……'80s face-molg 101……talog at-hangg……and low-key Bernatte-ery……wh a llective "Bnch!

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GAY OR STRAIGHT? HARD TO TELL

Physil mannerisms,, why do gay men ntue to create and cultivate the systems of mostly non-verbal munitn wh each other? I thk a lot of has to do wh the fact that gayns don't e wh hered physil tras or other visible intifiers on the body; we're forced to create our own.

Do look gay for a guy to wear the Comme D Garns Converse sho? (TIF) isn't your grandfathers' ad: It shows a gay uple, a first for the jeweler. But there's also a bs se to be ma: The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny held $790 ln buyg power, acrdg to a 2012 timate om the Human Rights Campaign, a leadg LGBT advocy group.

Seattle-based Amazon (AMZN) also released an ad spot that featur a gay man buyg a Kdle e-rear.

GAY SHO

"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " he wrote October.